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How Do You Like Your Big Toranas?

Started by RIM-010 , Mar 25 2008 07:11 PM

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Poll: How do ya like 'em, Flared or Straight? (79 member(s) have cast votes)

How do ya like 'em, Flared or Straight?

  1. Voted Flared Posted Image (54 votes [68.35%])

    Percentage of vote: 68.35%

  2. Unflared Posted Image (25 votes [31.65%])

    Percentage of vote: 31.65%

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#1 RIM-010

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 07:11 PM

This came up in the 'Big Torana or Little Torana' poll, and I thought I'd create another one here...

How do you like your LH/LX's? With the Kit or without?

I prefer mine unmolested, personally :spoton:

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 07:16 PM

Sorry Rim, Had to vote against you and go flared. f*ckin love the look.

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 07:43 PM

I am still doing battle with the hubby to get the flairs on Ruby. I have managed the hornet scoop, bobtail and spoiler. Just gotta persist.

Tuff torries are the SLR, A9X and L34.

Then u have the tuff sleepers as well.

I luv the full muscle look.

XXKAZXX

p.s. i havent had a chance to catch up with the other thread big v's small. BUT Big and Black is all good :tease:

Edited by kaz from adelaide, 25 March 2008 - 07:44 PM.

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 07:44 PM

So Rim and Bomber are changing camps then?

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 07:46 PM

I've always liked, and preferred, big Toranas Chop Chop... The LJ just happened to be in the right place at the right time...

Kaz, SL/R's didn't come with flares, remember ;) And a Hornet scoop? Why?

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 07:57 PM

I love the flares, but the LX that MYLJ is painting for me has nice straight wheel arches and people are telling me not to flare it
Aaaaaarghhh

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 08:36 PM

As long as the tyres fill em out they both look good but fat rubber and flares for me!
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Posted 25 March 2008 - 08:38 PM

Wouldnt be bothered owning one if it didnt have flares !! (and big hotwires, well any wheels, they just gotta be BIG)

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 08:42 PM

I love flairs, however to cut through both the rear skins on a neat hatch then clamp em' together and weld them up, I couldnt do it.

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 08:43 PM

i can appreciate a nice looking unflared torry but 1 with big fat ass tyres drop tank n the kit just looks ace

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 08:54 PM

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Flares baby,

yeeeeeeeehhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


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Posted 25 March 2008 - 08:55 PM

I don't know which way to vote. I like both. I love flare-less but there is not a day that goes by that I wish I had big fat tough flares and wheels to match. Nothing worse that flares and cheese cutters.

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 09:05 PM

I Chose Flared....

But.

Our SL/R if it were to get5 built would be unflared.

Theres good and bad on both sides, and i have seen some amazing cars both flared, and unflared.

at the end of the day....I like flared hatches, and both styles of 4 doors!

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 09:17 PM

Flares for me as long as they are filled with big rubber.

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 09:18 PM

Not changing camps chop. Always loved my little Torries and always will.

BUT. if i ever get around to doing another project car, and it happens to be a torana, it will be either a LX or UC hatch. If its a UC naturally it will be converted to LX status....

Mind you i also wanna build a XW falcon and either a Pontiac Parisiene or a Chev Impala, but all of them will probably never happen if i keep buying motorbikes :P.

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 09:21 PM

DEFINATELY flared, thats how a torana is known

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 09:21 PM

Flares for me as long as they are filled with big rubber.

Ditto.

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 09:34 PM

Definitely flared and with big rubber.

Anything else looks like granny's shopping trolley! or a car that mum uses to drop the kids off at school.

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 09:36 PM

Just like this one...........it just needs to sit a little lower, i'm getting there.
Herne, that front wheel in the arch looks perfect......
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Posted 25 March 2008 - 10:00 PM

Needs a rear spoiler...

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 10:27 PM

I love both but for me its unflared. Its like a beautiful woman or something. Of course flares look mean and the rubber under the guards is priceless but the sleek lines of unflared is pure beauty!

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 10:48 PM

Gawd, I don't have a voting option. I don't mind them either way, so long as the wheels fill the guards/flares then they both look ace. Wish I had a pic of my first Torrie with the hotwires, it didn't have flares, but fully filled the guards. Yella fills the flares and then some.

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 11:00 PM

Full kit for me all the way!!!

Yes, unflared LH's and LX's (and especially LX hatchbacks) look nice if done up right, but for that all-out muscle car look, you cannot beat the full kit, flares, spoilers, fatties, droptank etc.... there are no other cars on the road like them, they stand out from a mile away!! Plus, it also ties in the whole Bathurst race car thing to them as well.

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Posted 25 March 2008 - 11:32 PM

Most of you know I like originality but I really admire a tough Torana fully flared and phatt wheels.

However if it is a GTR, XU-1, SL/R 5000, Hell 34, SS or A9X then leave them as factory.

As for the S and SL ..... tart 'em up :spoton:

The only mod I would do with my SS is a drop tank as living out here in the country, the original tank is not crash hot on long trips.

Regards .................... Barry

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Posted 26 March 2008 - 03:17 AM

you know its flared for me rim ! :spoton: with big ass hotwires :rockon:
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